Monday, September 19, 2016

Ikea's Dining Club, Media Pref of Chocoholics & what makes a great ad campaign


What makes a great ad campaign
Some of the nominees for the advertising effectiveness awards give their thoughts in this short video on what makes a great ad campaign.  The ADFX 2016 awards honour ad campaigns that deliver real results and they’re organised by IAPI – Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland.
The nominees’ suggestions include: have a Big Thought – this shouldn’t be a surprise to a client but rather the creative strategy and execution should; set the bar high; ensure the client is on board with your strategy before you do anything; long-term relationships between client and agency work best as when things go wrong, they won’t bale on each other and finally, hire people who run towards problems rather than away from them.

Ikea’s pop-up Dining Club
To showcase their wares, popularise the dinnery party and get people cooking together, Swedish retailer Ikea has opened a pop up restaurant, “The Dining Club” in trendy Shoreditch, east London. Visitors can each bring up to 20 guests all of whom work alongside chefs to prepare simple Scandinavian-themed dishes.  Their iconic Swedish Meatballs are not on the menu however! 
Ikea say they run a “Life at Home” survey each year and it shows that people are spending less and less time cooking and eating so this initiative in the UK aims to redress that.  The Dining Club features the smallest kitchen in the world (about the size of a bath), runs workshops and hosted tutored dinner parties.  It has a virtual reality kitchen which, usefully, enables you to experience your workspace from the height of your pets!!

Chocoholics and media usage
Well I just had to include this story, being partial to chocolate myself!  This TGI data for chocolate lovers in Ireland shows that 15% of adults (540,000 people) eat chocolate once a day or more.  My immaturity is evident when I read that 25-34 years old are 20% more likely to be in this chocoholic group, whilst those aged 65+ are 45% less likely.  They are also 32% more likely to be aged 15-34, not married or living as a couple, do not live with son/daughter or live with parents. 
Media-wise,
they are 28% more likely to agree that they cannot resist buying magazines, 23% more likely to agree that pop up ads help them find interesting things on the internet and 23% more likely to agree that on TV they enjoy the ads as much as the programmes.  For more insights on chocoholics, see http://www.adworld.ie/2016/09/16/insight-week-courting-chocoholics/


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